Closed-crotch underwear.



R R. JANES.

CLOSED CHOTCH UNDERWEAR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8. i913.

1,226,778, Patented May 22, 1917.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

RALPH R. Jeans, on BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AssIGNoR'To STANDARD KNITTINGMILLS COMPANY, A CORPORATION on NEW YORK. 7 i

CLOSED-CROTCII UNDERWEAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1917.

Application filed November 8, 1913. Serial No. 799,860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH R. JANRs, a citizen of the United States,residing in Brooklyn, in the city and State of. New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Closed-Crotch Underwear,

of which the following is a full, clear, and complete disclosure.

My invention relates to mens union suit underwear and particularly to anarrangement for opening and closing the seat or crotch of suchunderwear. The object of my invention is to produce a closed crotchunion suit which will be comfortable to tie wearer, which will be easyto make and which can he made at a low cost with a minimum waste ofmaterial. A further object is to so combine the several pieces of clothentering into the garment that the lines to be sewed will besubstantially straight, thereby making the sewing operation easy andcheapening the cost of production. A still further object is to soarrange the parts that there will be no unnecessary cloth in the rear ofthe garment and no bunching of cloth between the wearers legs. Otherobjects and advantages will appear from a description of the preferredembodiment of my invention shown in the drawing accompanying and forminga part of this specification. In this drawing Figure 1 shows a rear viewof my improved garment. 2 shows the way in which the material is out toform the gussets used in the garment, shown in Fig. 1. Referring in'detail to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the body portion of theunion suit, 2 the arm holes and 3 the legs. The garment is preferablyformed out of a single tubular knitted member which is cut open in theback up to the point 4, located when in use at or near the middle of theback of the wearer. The tubular member is also cut in front from theyoke 18 to the lower extremity and a row of buttons'5 extending from theneck opening down to the crotch and are provided to close the frontopening. The legs are formed by sewing together the adjacent edges 6 ofthe material as shown inFig. 1. In order to close the seat and crotch ofthe garment I provide a large gusset member 7 (see Fig. 2) and a smalltriangular shaped gusset member 13. These are so shaped that two of eachmay be cut from a rectangular piece of material and as they need littleor no finishing prior to being positioned in the garment there is littleor no loss of material; lhe large gusset member has five sides, via, astraight side 8, two sides 21, 21 at right angles thereto, and two sides22, 25 of unequal length forming angles greater than ninety degrees withthe two sides 21, 21, and with each other. The straight edge of thelarge gusset member is secured to the edge 9 of the material at the rearof the garment from the point 4 down to the beginning of the leg seam atthe point 10. The lower end of the gusset member 7 is folded. back underthe crotch and the straight edge 21 is then secured to the edge 11 ofthe material at the front of the garment. The edge 22 of the gussetmember extends from zit-or about the point 20 to the button 24-. Thestraight edge 25 extends from this button upwardly to the point 26. Thefree side of the gusset member 7 forms a flap 12 which extends over andsubstantially closes the crotch or seat opening. The small gusset 13 isinserted in the inner seam of the leg opposite the one to which thelarge gusset is secured, that is, the seam of the leg is left open abovethe point 10 and edges 14 and 15 of the small gusset are sewed to thefree edges forming the leg so that the edge 16 of the small gussetbulges out and overlaps the material of the large gusset, therebyefiectively closing the seat or crotch. It will be seen from theforegoing that the small gusset is located substantially below thecrotch and that there is only one flap in the finished garment, namely:that designated by the numeral 12, and formed as an integral part of thegusset 7 I have found that garments made in this manner with a singleflap are more comfortable than those made with two flaps,since there isless tendency or likelihood of the goods in the former bunching andannoying the wearer. I have also discovered that by forming the gussetmembers 7 and 18, one large and carrying a flap and the other small andserving only as a gusset, that the lines to be sewed may be madesubstantially straight and the material may be out as shown in Fig. 2,so as to avoid the scrapping and wasting of the material.

While I have described only one embodiment of my invention I am awarethat modifications may be made by those skilled in the art withoutdeparting from the scope of my claims. What I claim is:

1. A garment of the kind described "formed of a tubular member severedin the front on a straight line from the top to the bottom and in therear from the bottom to about the waist, the lower ends of the severededges being sewed together thus forming the legs, while the Outer edgesof the tubular member are left unsevered, the severed portions of thetube at the back of the garment forming a posterior opening extendingfrom the points where the edges are sewed together to form the legs to apoint substantially at the waist of the garment, and a gusset insertedin one of said leg seams extending over and covering the aforesaidposterior opening.

2. A garment of the kind described formed of a tubular member severed ona straight line at the front and rear at about the vertical center ofthe tube to form two separate members on opposite sides of said centralline, the front being severed from the top to the bottom and the rearfrom-the bottom to about the waist, the lower severed edges of each ofsaid two separate members being sewed together to form leg portions, thesevered portions at the back of the garment being free from each otherfrom the point where the legs are sewed together to a point atsubstantially the waist of the garment thereby forming a posterioropening, and a gusset sewed to one of the leg seams independent of theother leg seam and extending a short Copies of this patent may beobtained for distance below the crotch and having its free portion sewedto the opposite edge of the same leg member, said gusset forming a flapwhich extends over said posterior opening.

3. A garment of the kind described, formed of a tubular member, thefront wall of which is cut on a centrally disposed verticallinefiextending from the yoke to the lower end of the tubular member andthe rear wall of whichis severed on a centrally disposed vertical lineextending from the lower end of the garment to a point located asubstantial distance above the crotch of the finished garment, legsformed. by

joining the edges of the front and rear.

walls of the tube, main gusset and seat ClOSUTO PIGCB extending down theback of the garment and looped around the crotch,

said gusset member comprising a flap adapted to substantially close theseat or rear opening, and a relatively small gusset member substantiallytriangular in shape located in the seam of one lcg'substantially belowthe crotch and adapted to cooperate with the main gusset member andcomplete the closure of the crotch, substantially as described.

. RALPH R. JANEs. p

WVitnesses WALTER S. J ONES, WM. M. EARL.

five cents each, by addressing theCoinmissioner of Patents. Washington,D. 0.

